UPDATE 2: We published 334.4 today to more broadly disable favorites sync, which should fix some sync-related crashes that users have been experiencing.

UPDATE: We published 334.3 today to fix an issue where navigation on some websites was taking an extraordinarily long time for some users. We're also hoping to publish another small revision next week to fix a couple of known crashes.

Hello insiders, today we’re releasing build 80.0.334.2 to the Dev channel! The most important thing to know this week is that, after last week’s sync issues, we’ve temporarily disabled favorites sync to prevent any more duplication. As for the other noteworthy changes:

Added features:

Added a right-click option to sort individual favorites folders by name from the Favorites management page.

Added a new setting to always use Strict Tracking Prevention inside InPrivate windows.

Improved reliability:

Fixed a crash on launch.

Fixed an issue where searching from the address bar sometimes crashes the browser.

Fixed an issue where closing tabs that contain websites that are blocked by SmartScreen sometimes causes a browser crash.

Fixed an issue where deleted or edited favorites aren’t synced properly, causing the edit to be undone when it syncs back down.

Fixed an issue where syncing gets stuck in the “Setting up sync” state on browser startup.

Fixed an issue where processes that grow too large and stop working aren’t automatically fixed.

Fixed an issue where sync sometimes fails after restoring tabs after a browser crash.

Fixed an issue where large Collections aren’t properly exported to Word.

Fixed an issue where exporting a Collection to Excel sometimes fails.

Reduced the number of times a user needs to sign out and sign back into the browser in order to fix sync.

Changed behavior:

Temporarily disabled the ability to export Collections to Word and Excel on Mac.

Temporarily disabled one form of DRM support on ARM64, which may impact the ability to play certain DRM-protected videos.

Fixed an issue where windows that are minimized when the browser is restarted aren’t restored properly.

Fixed an issue where Netflix playback fails with error D7356.

Fixed an issue where the space bar doesn’t work when typing in the address bar.

Fixed an issue where the enter key doesn’t work when typing in the address bar.

Fixed an issue where the Windows Hello prompt to log into a website with the user’s OS credentials sometimes shows in an infinite loop.

Fixed an issue for users of work and school accounts where websites that try and fail to use the browser profile’s credentials to log in don’t subsequently allow the user to fall back and try the user’s OS credentials.

Improved the way Collections export images to Word documents.

Fixed an issue where items sometimes fail to be added to Collections.

Fixed an issue where webpage contents sometimes render all black if Collections is enabled.

Fixed an issue where adding certain images to Collections results in a card with a broken image.

Fixed an issue where PWAs installed for one user on a machine sometimes can’t be launched by other users on the machine.

Fixed an issue on Mac where feedback screenshots can’t be included when submitting feedback.

Fixed an issue where link context menus don’t show all the options if they’re opened via the keyboard instead of the mouse.

Fixed an issue where some websites that are pinned to the Task Bar launch new tabs instead of activating existing tabs when tabs with those websites already exist.

Fixed an issue where open tabs aren’t properly imported from Chrome.

Fixed an issue where the wrong icon appears on web notifications.

Known issues:

There are some issues where users with multiple audio output devices sometimes don’t get any sound from Edge. In one case, Edge becomes muted in the Windows Volume Mixer and unmuting it fixes it. In another, restarting the browser fixes it.

At certain zoom levels, there is a noticeable line between the browser UI and the web contents.

Last month, some users got a “Work” account automatically added to the browser that wasn’t removable. Although we recently enabled the ability for some users to remove this account, there’s still an issue where users who are signed into Windows with a work or school account may not be able to remove that account from the browser.

Clicking a link on one virtual desktop currently opens a new tab in a window on a different virtual desktop if there’s no window open on the current desktop but there is on another. This is a regression from past behavior, which opened a new window on the current desktop.

Jumplist entries are not consistent between the Start Menu and the Task Bar for some users. We believe this is due to the shortcut on the Start Menu not getting migrated properly after an Edge update and are working on a fix. Additionally, after getting the update for the new icon, there are still places on the Start Menu, for example when searching, that still show the old icon. Other places like the Task Bar may be able to be fixed by un-pinning and then re-pinning any Edge shortcuts that already exist there.

Sometimes the browser will appear to not respond to any user input (clicking or scrolling in webpages doesn’t do anything, hovering over UI doesn’t make it change), but clicking on certain buttons still works (like the … menu). The cause of this is due to an error in the GPU process, and opening the browser task manager (right-click near the window minimize/maximize/close buttons or hit shift+esc on the keyboard) will open a window that will allow you to end the GPU process, which will fix the issue. This issue was inherited from upstream Chromium, and a fix for it just went in upstream, so the next Dev update should have it.

We won’t be updating next week due to the holidays, but in the meantime we’re very thankful for all your feedback and suggestions!

@josh_bodner Thanks for finally adding the ability to sort favourites. However the process was not exactly intuitive like it is in the old Edge. In old Edge I could right click on the pop down favourites list. Whereas in the Chromium version I have to go to manage favourites and then search for exactly the right place to right click.

So better than no sorting but no where near as good as the old Edge ... or even IE.

To make Classic Edge, how did Microsoft take the Win32-centric Internet Explorer and make the scrolling actually better than every other browser including Safari on iOS (the OS where today's touch scrolling experience originated)?

You need to do the same for Edge Chromium. In part due to Chromium's weird relationship with Win32 and half-hearted attempts to make Chromium's UI platform-agnostic, it has various rendering issues everywhere across the UI (e.g. tooltips were previously rendering with incomplete borders, or the still longstanding issue of the address toolbar having a 2px grey bottom border on HiDPI screens when maximised but not when minimised). I believe these also affect the scrolling behaviour.

On Dev and Canary channels, I'm still getting logged out of Disqus whenever I refresh or open a new page. At least the "PlayReady DRM for Windows 10" flag was reimplemented, which needs to be disabled in order to have HD playback on Amazon Prime Video content. Looks like I'll have to stick to Beta build until Edge Chromium goes gold in January.

@Jordan Paris and everybody else seeing this, we finally got this issue root caused today, and it has to do with what kind of TPM your machine has, which is why not everybody is seeing this. The fix for it should be in either tomorrow or Friday's Canary, and we're hoping to also patch Dev with this fix since we aren't doing a full Dev update next week and don't want to leave people hanging.

Linked with this is the unmanageable 'clutter' that the new Edge creates in the Downloads folder. 80% of the time I don't want a copy of a downloaded file stored permanently on my computer; I just want to download and Open it. Please look at implementing the suggestion by @josh_bodner, and stop (permanently) storing files I don't want stored.

@josh_bodner -- Does anyone have issues with their profile picture not showing on this build? The previous one was okay, but this build is blank. I signed out and back in to see and even editing it shows the correct picture on MS site.

@adrianghc You make a good point (which is why i mentioned closer). I think I associate big with store and small with desktop, even if it's too big, but I'd love to see the title bar match store apps exactly as suggested by adrianghc, and also to see some margin/padding between the close button and the window title (again, to match store apps).

E.g. see YouTube Music running as edge installed app and Microsoft News running as store app:

.346 has fixed the crash on startup. Looks like it was related to the Information/News tab. If I was *real* quick and closed it as soon as I could I could then open a new blank window. .346 is working normally.

Currently, we have the 3 beta Channels, Beta, Dev & Canary. Once Edge C goes GA mid-January, obviously, that replaces Edge HTML. As for the betas, the Insider Builds, one suspicion is AN Insider (beta) Build will continue, likely as Canary. This would be similar to having regular Win10 installations whist some are, ALSO, running/testing & giving Feedback on Insider Builds... with stuff that ends up in regular installations. Some of us think there will continue to be an Insider beta & Edge may continue to evolve & develop through that, similar to the scenario with Win10.